{"id":103221,"date":"2016-09-02T07:37:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T05:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=103221"},"modified":"2016-09-02T07:37:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T05:37:51","slug":"donald-trumps-presidential-campaign-is-run-by-a-former-wow-gold-seller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/103221-donald-trumps-presidential-campaign-is-run-by-a-former-wow-gold-seller","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump&#8217;s Presidential Campaign is run by a former WoW gold seller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would be a slight understatement to say Donald Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign has been controversial.<\/p>\n<p>Things only became more ridiculous\u00a0when it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2016\/08\/stephen-bannon-world-warcraft-gold-farming-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>revealed<\/strong> <\/a>that Trump\u2019s new campaign CEO, Stephen Bannon, once ran a World of Warcraft gold farming marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At various points, Bannon has worked as an investment banker,<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/08\/17\/donald-trump-s-new-campaign-chief-makes-a-lot-of-money-off-of-seinfeld.html\" target=\"_blank\">earned money<\/a> <\/strong>off Seinfeld royalties, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2016\/08\/stephen-bannon-donald-trump-biosphere-2-arizona\" target=\"_blank\">overseen<\/a><\/strong> a biosphere, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/08\/19\/i-watched-all-of-steve-bannon-s-bad-movies.html\" target=\"_blank\">directed<\/a> <\/strong>films, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2016\/08\/stephen-bannon-donald-trump-alt-right-breitbart-news\" target=\"_blank\">run<\/a> <\/strong>an alt-right news site.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But one of the stranger blips on his career path came in the mid-aughts, when Bannon joined and eventually ran a company that made its name and fortune as an online marketplace to sell virtual gold to World of Warcraft players and other online gamers&#8221; reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2016\/08\/stephen-bannon-world-warcraft-gold-farming-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\">Mother Jones<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The practice of Gold farming and selling is against World of Warcraft&#8217;s Terms of Service and is generally quite frowned upon by the community.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this has only given the internet one more reason to discuss\u00a0Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This how powerful AMD\u2019s Radeon RX Series graphics cards really are\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/102729-this-how-powerful-amds-radeon-rx-series-graphics-cards-really-are.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This how powerful AMD\u2019s Radeon RX Series graphics cards really are<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How we get local gaming servers in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/102911-how-we-get-local-gaming-servers-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How we get local gaming servers in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Awesome games arriving in September\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/102415-games-of-september-2016.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Awesome games arriving in September<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you didn&#8217;t think the internet could be anymore upset with Donald Trump, there&#8217;s now this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":103223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[31,665,21693,7689,635],"class_list":["post-103221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-active","tag-blizzard","tag-donald-trump","tag-politics","tag-world-of-warcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103231,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103221\/revisions\/103231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}